Ethos Farm to Health Board of Directors

Ethos Farm to Health Founder

Ron Weiss, M.D. is dual board-certified in internal medicine and lifestyle medicine, and a primary care physician in New Jersey and New York. He is the founder of Ethos Primary Care and Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. He is also a botanist and farmer and offers an evidence-based, food-as-medicine approach to healing from chronic illness and optimizing wellness.  

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Michael has been an organic gardener since the 1970s, when he subscribed to Rodale Press’ Organic Gardening magazine. He is a strong proponent of eradicating invasive plants and landscaping with natives – principles he demonstrates on his own properties in Harding Township, NJ, and Stockbridge, MA.

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Dr. Andrew “Drew” Smith is responsible for administrating, facilitating, and implementing farm operations and research activities at the Rodale Institute main campus and six other production and research campuses.

Drew earned a Bachelor of Science in agronomy at Cornell University and a Master of Science in entomology at the University of Maryland.

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Gail Kreitzer, PCC is a Life & Leadership Coach, specializing in mindful communication, team building, leadership development, overcoming overwhelm, and personal empowerment. Gail believes it's the little things that generate the biggest impact. Her coaching company works with individuals across multiple industries including financial services, technology, pharmaceutical, education, and the armed forces. Gail is the creator of the Dashboarding® method of mental decluttering.  Before coaching, Gail was a Human Resources Executive in the marketing/advertising industry. 

Gail is the Chapter Leader of a community group within the International Coaching Federation of NJ and has served as the Development Chair on the Westmont Montessori board of trustees. During her free time, Gail enjoys hiking, Pilates, vegan cooking, playing Scrabble, and creating fun adventures and experiences for family and friends.

As the founder of Hidden Spruce Farm Sanctuary in Bedminster, Tracy has channeled her deep commitment to animal welfare and plant-based living into the creation of a safe haven for vulnerable species. Established on her 50-acre family farm, the sanctuary reflects her mission to promote compassion and inspire lasting change.

In addition to her work with the sanctuary, Tracy is deeply invested in service and education. She currently serves on the Development Committee for The Willow School, and plays a key leadership role in organizing the school’s largest fundraising and community events.

Tracy’s professional background is rooted in finance and entrepreneurship. She previously owned and operated a boutique gourmet bakery that received recognition from prominent publications, including The New York Times. Earlier in her career, Tracy held leadership positions at Bank of America in the Healthcare and Institutions division, where she specialized in credit product analysis, underwriting, and relationship management.

Tracy holds a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from Bucknell University, where she and her husband remain actively involved in various aspects of the University.

Anthony Masiello has been working in healthcare for more than 25 years.  His career started in the 90s doing bioinformatics work on the Human Genome Project at the National Institutes of Health.  He later shifted into Research and Development at Novartis Pharmaceuticals, where he was excited to contribute to the development of new disease therapies.

 While working at Novartis, Anthony had a major health scare and was denied a 20-year term life insurance policy at age 33.  He was morbidly obese, weighing more than 360 pounds, medicated for high blood pressure, and suffering from psoriasis, eczema, migraine headaches, and sleep apnea.  He found the book Eat to Live and quickly transitioned to a nutritarian diet and lost 160 pounds, reversing all those health conditions in just 20 months.

 His personal transformation led Anthony to shift his career once again, and he is now 100% focused on making sure everyone has access to medical care centered around the prevention and reversal of disease utilizing lifestyle medicine and whole food plant-based nutrition.

 Anthony co-founded what is now Lifestyle Telemedicine in 2019 to make access to medical care based on the principles of Lifestyle Medicine available to everyone.  He’s proud to enable patients to find the medical care they need to implement lifestyle changes that will truly improve their health, wellness, and quality of life, no matter where they live.

 Anthony’s personal transformation has been featured on the Megyn Kelly Today show, on PBS, in The Huffington Post, in the bestselling book Eat to Live, and by Forks Over Knives, Runners World, Health Science, and numerous magazines, web sites, radio shows, podcasts, and articles.